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You wait and wait for a French Rom-com showing what expression and visual...
Looks like it is mandatory to use a sans-serif geometrical font like Futura.
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The Amazing Maurice Guoqiang Zhao and his Educated Rodents
[Previously cross-posted at For Better Science. Introduction and sections by Leonid Schneider and TigerBB8 included with their kind permission. More examples in comments]This is another contribution of...
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On the Internet no-one knows you're a dog barking mad
Enquiring minds want to know more about the JBR Health Education & Research Organisation, or society, or whatever. For its footprint on the Interlattice betrays few clues as to the activities of...
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Also a good title for a pulp SF novel
This was all F X Coudert's fault.I was forced to follow up.
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To globalisation! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems
A pair of clever mycologists are discovering new species of Boletus without venturing farther than their supermarket. All thanks to Market Forces, and DNA sequencing technology, and life-style...
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She Tries Not to Shatter #2, Lobster edition
"Loner, seen from behind" is #1 in some lists of visual tropes for lazy movie-poster designers, as compiled by lazy Pop-Culture websites. Actually these lists are all the same, in different orders, so...
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Pear Pimples for Hairy Fishnuts
WTF did I just read?“Quantum Biophysical Semeiotic” sounds like a reboot of the Sokal Hoax, written by people who were worried that Sokal’s original sting manuscript leaned too far in the direction of...
View Article"To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and...
Was Newton standing on the shoulders of giants while searching the seashore for shiny pebbles? I guess he had one of those extending gripping things so he could reach down.
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Not many people know that.
Dani Rabaiotti @DaniRabaiottiFollowFollow @DaniRabaiottiMoreThe hardest part of being an author is working out what the plural of Portuguese man o'war is1:35 AM - 27 May 201927 Retweets237 Likes35...
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To lose one co-author’s papers to an ORI investigation may be regarded as a...
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing, frame-story and illustrations. Further explorations by...
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You wait and wait for a bus to throw co-authors under, and then three come...
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame-story. Further explorations by Elisabeth Bik...
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Punctuation marks need affirmation too
Especially the comma, working so hard to make sentences comprehensible with so little reward or recognition. Well done semicolon!Looking good, ellipses!Never mind, apostrophe. Take the rest of the day...
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Another green world #2
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and frame-story. And someout-takes.It turned out that an...
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Every step you take, I'll be watching you
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's frame-story and integration of the contributions from TigerBB8. A...
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Oddly enough, "Accidental Cat Filter" is also the name of my Al Stewart...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/17/accidental-cat-filter-appears-on-pakistan-officials-briefing
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[Narrator's voice]: Later, Johnston insulted the neighbours while taking out...
I do not envy his future neighbours at #12.
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Who's Queen around here?
"I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble monstrous violent stabby feline; but I have the reincarnated soul of Elizabeth Regina, and I am ready for my next Hilliard portrait."
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Beautiful evidence
Additions by Tiger. This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the nonfrivolity and Explaining Voice. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and explanation of the...
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